{"id":1093,"date":"2022-02-18T13:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:29:18","slug":"kicks-spits-and-headers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Kicks, Spits, and Headers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/sdk\/js?client-id=BAAZVqDzpOe4wiR8CaLD_oJEvsW8k_r43j2m8f0nPZpK9MqpD3c_nCgZ1_fgqtEOiF3kkO3be21V5NnwRU&#038;components=hosted-buttons&#038;disable-funding=venmo&#038;currency=GBP\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer<br \/>\n<\/strong>Paolo Sollier<br \/>\nPreface by Sandro Mezzadra<br \/>\nTranslated by Steven Colatrella<\/p>\n<p><em>Kicks, Spits, and Headers<\/em> documents two years of football by a self-proclaimed accidental footballer. Coming of age during the student and worker revolt of the 1960s-1970s, the Italian \u2018hot autumn,\u2019 Paolo Sollier brought these countercultural energies and Marxist politics on to the football pitch, inadvertently becoming an icon along the way. Here he describes, in lucid and humorous prose, the challenges of trying make sense of and balance the tensions and contradictions between being a professional footballer and a political militant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA classic of radical football literature, finally available in English. This is a real treat that must not be missed. \u2013 Gabriel Kuhn, author of <em>Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and\u00a0<\/em><em>Radical Politics<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cReading <em>Kicks, Spits, and Headers<\/em> today allows readers to explore from a specific viewpoint the landscape of politics and football in the turbulent 1970s in Italy. It also delivers us the fragmentary contours of a project that deserves to be translated onto the conditions of our present.\u201d \u2013 Sandro Mezzadra, from the Preface<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong> Paolo Sollier was a professional footballer in the 1970s, then manager in the amateur leagues. He is author of the bestseller <em>Calci, Sputi e Colpi di Testa<\/em>, first published in 1976 and here translated into English for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ordering Information <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-BJDQ8TX8VQBQC\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"BJDQ8TX8VQBQC\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-BJDQ8TX8VQBQC\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Available direct from Minor Compositions for the special price of \u00a310 + shipping.<\/p>\n<p>You can also download it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/kickspitsheaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-1095\">Kicks, Spits, and Headers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>176 pages, 5.5 x 8.5<br \/>\nUK: \u00a318 \/ US: $24<br \/>\nISBN 978-1-57027-393-3<\/p>\n<p>Release to the book trade May Day 2022<\/p>\n<p>Also available for a limited time, the first ever Paolo Sollier football scarf! It&#8217;s a wonderful knitted 100% acrylic scarf, designed by our comrades from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acidfc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acid FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?attachment_id=1115\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1115\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarf-lowres-1-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarf-lowres-1-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarf-lowres-1-1024x374.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarf-lowres-1-768x281.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarf-lowres-1-1536x561.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/scarf-lowres-1-2048x748.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kicks, Spits, and Headers with Scarf (\u00a318 for both) here:<\/p>\n<div id=\"paypal-container-86PNLF7YP4ZCL\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  paypal.HostedButtons({\n    hostedButtonId: \"86PNLF7YP4ZCL\",\n  }).render(\"#paypal-container-86PNLF7YP4ZCL\")\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer Paolo Sollier Preface by Sandro Mezzadra Translated by Steven Colatrella Kicks, Spits, and Headers documents two years of football by a self-proclaimed accidental footballer. 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